Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in genteel Lilliput Street on a barrister’s uncertain fees, and Rosa decides they must give a dinner worthy of their connections. Egged on by her formidable mother Mrs. Gashleigh, she hires a grand French chef, invites the wrong people and watches the bills and humiliations pile up.
A sharp little comedy of London snobbery from the author of Vanity Fair, first published in Punch. Download the free EPUB.